Rising fee income and mixed profitability put the UK’s Top 75 accountancy firms at a crossroads with private equity investors looking for growth opportunities and staff facing job uncertainties, reports Philip Smith

The Business and Trade Committee questioned auditors on 26 March about the lack of audit reform which could take decades to come to fruition

A 70-year-old man has been jailed for 22 months after pleading guilty to fraud and theft offences which began in 2017